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Posted 18 February 2018 - 01:47 PM

Durham, NC Herald-Sun, 2/16/18:
 

 

 
Chapel Hill, Hillsborough forced to sacrifice in light rail funding bid. Here’s why.

 

 

Durham officials used an unusual move recently to remove Chapel Hill’s bus rapid transit (BRT) plans from the queue for state funding to give the $3.3 billion Durham-Orange light rail project a better shot.

 
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Posted 20 February 2018 - 07:50 AM

Durham, NC Herald-Sun, 2/20/18:
 

 

How Durham is trying to get affordable housing at light rail stops



 
 
Durham leaders wants affordable housing near proposed light rail stops, so they’re offering developers more incentives. But they’re not sure it will work.

 

 
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Posted 16 March 2018 - 03:48 PM

Durham, NC Herald-Sun, 3/16/18:

 

 

Where's the Durham-Orange light rail? Local officials buying land, hopeful for future


 

 

As Congress debates next year's federal budget, local officials learned Wednesday that GoTriangle now owns all the land needed for a light-rail operations and maintenance center in southeastern Durham.

 

 

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Posted 29 May 2018 - 12:20 PM

Durham, NC Herald-Sun, 5/29/18:

 

 

 

 

                Could this state move put the brakes on the Durham-Orange light-rail project?
 

 

A revised state budget could bring the region's $3.3 billion Durham-Orange light rail project to a halt.

 

Local officials said the economic consequences of the move, if it is approved, could be far-ranging.

 

 

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Posted 29 May 2018 - 12:23 PM

Triangle Business Journal, 5/29/18:

 


 

Durham-Orange Light Rail's next hurdle: The state budget

 

 

After $88 million in investments, the planned $2.5 billion, 17.7-mile Durham-Orange Light Rail Transit project could be derailed by the state budget.

 

 

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Posted 27 June 2018 - 11:36 AM

Durham, NC Herald-Sun, 6/22/18:

 

 

 

 

              Durham-Orange light-rail 'in rare company,' planner says. But $57M gap remains.
 

 

 

Elected officials learned more Thursday about the financial challenges facing the Durham-Orange light-rail project, but also about the benefits it could deliver.

 

 

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Posted 04 July 2018 - 02:03 PM

Daily Tar Heel, UNC Chapel Hill, 7/2/18:

 


 

Light rail project is possible again but has tight deadline

 

 

The Durham-Orange light rail transit project has pushed through from what appeared to be the project’s elimination to an uncertain but possible future. 

 

 

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Posted 24 July 2018 - 07:30 PM

Triangle Business Journal, 7/23/18:

 


 

Designers criticize Durham-Orange Light Rail station plans

 

 

The Durham-Orange Light Rail project faces new criticism this week – this time from a group of designers.

 

 

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Posted 11 August 2018 - 06:41 PM

Column in Raleigh, NC News & Observer, 8/8/18:

 


 

Enough is enough. We can’t afford Durham-Orange light rail 

 

 

 

The escalating costs of the Durham-Orange light rail project are very disturbing. 

 

Our county commissioners and GoTriangle told us in 2012 that the project cost would be $1.4 billion. Now it is $2.5 billion. 

 

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Posted 27 August 2018 - 06:09 PM

Durham, NC Herald-Sun, 8/27/18:

 

 

NC left Durham-Orange Light Rail with a $57M gap. Now Durham says it can fill it.


 

 

Durham County now says it can fill a $57.6 million state funding gap for the Durham-Orange light rail project.

 

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